Dávid Hovančík

Dr. Dávid Hovančík earned his Bachelors and Masters in Physical Engineering of Progressive Materials from the University of Presov in Slovakia in 2019 and 2021, respectively. He then moved to Charles Univeristy in Prague, earning a Ph.D. in Mathematics and Physics in 2025. There he worked as a experimental condensed matter physicist on magnetism and its interaction with light and lattice vibrations. In 2024, he won a Fullbright Fellowship and visited the group of Prof. Xiaodong Xu at the University of Washington, USA between 2024 and 2025. He joined our lab as a post-doctoral researcher in December 2025.

Email: david.hovancik@unibas.ch
Office: +41 61 207 37 61
Lab: +41 61 207 35 81